Allston-Brighton Infill and Small Developments

^ Ur right but sometime's I don't know what projects are what(1st pix),I run accross so many in one day sometimes,I'll try to do better w/my posts!
 
Can anyone direct me to some more renderings or info on Tata Hall? Based on the one drawing I saw in Boston.com it looks like a pretty interesting design.
 
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Harvard's site:
http://www.construction.harvard.edu/HBS/Tata-Hall/index.html
 
some recent approvals.

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The $7.2 million Penniman on the Park project will replace three deteriorating low rise commercial and storage buildings on a lot bounded by Penniman Street, Rugg Road, a 4-story artist live/work building, and a commercial building. The new 5-story building will feature 36 condominiums, including 6 affordable units, 17 underground parking spaces, and access to 10 surface parking spaces on an adjacent parcel.
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The $15 million project at 375 Market Street will house 39 residential units and provide new housing opportunities for families, including 2-one-bedrooms, 34-two bedrooms, and 3-three bedrooms. The project includes a 22,425 square foot parking garage with 58 spaces and accommodations for 12 bicycles. A pocket park that fronts onto Bennett Street will be constructed and will be open to the public.
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375 Market will rise right next to the new TD Bank building (not an exciting retail addition but at least the building is pretty good looking) and will plug one of the last big holes in the Brighton Center streetscape. Now here's hoping those two- and three bedrooms actually get filled by some families.
 
Anyone have pics of the TD Bank? Kz - that's high praise for what is presumably another one story addition to the nabe.
 
This is the project at Brainerd and Griggs Streets:

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And I vaguely remember hearing something about this, it's just east of the intersection of Harvard and Brighton Aves:

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I was wondering what was happening at the Brighton/Harvard intersection. Are those apartments?
 
I was by there last week and while the house still stands, the foundation footings along Glenville are already in the ground.

So what's that facade made of? Stucco? Alucobond? Whatever it is, given the proper lack of maintenance it should look like shit in no time.
 
How can it be too big? Both the original and the revised are three stories. The building across the street is four or five; the abutting building looks to be three.
 
stellarfun said:
How can it be too big? Both the original and the revised are three stories. The building across the street is four or five; the abutting building looks to be three.
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Boston Zoning Board turns down Greylock project in Allston
By Meena Ramakrishnan
Wicked Local Allston
Posted Apr 13, 2010 @ 06:38 PM

Read more: Boston Zoning Board turns down Greylock project in Allston - Allston-Brighton, MA - Allston/Brighton TAB http://www.wickedlocal.com/allston/...own-Greylock-project-in-Allston#ixzz1lzFOosFP

Allston, Mass. —

A development project for a housing complex on Greylock Road in Allston was turned down today by the Zoning Board of Appeals. The project had the approval of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, Mayor Thomas Menino and City Councilor Mark Ciommo, but was voted down without prejudice, terminating Greylock Glenville LLC’s plans.

Greylock Glenville LLC, RODE Architects and the representative attorney declined to comment.

The project at 17-23 Greylock Road had five variances violating the city zoning code. The zoning board called the changes Greylock Glenville LLC made insignificant, according to Allston resident Bob Pesseck who attended the hearing.

“One of the people on the board described that plan as ‘pathetic’,” he said. “It’s just too big. People said it looked like a prison being dropped on it. Architecturally, there’s nothing special about it.”

The structure would have replaced two colonial two-family homes and a single family home built in the 1880s with a three-story 20-unit residential building. The complex would have had one and two-bedroom units in a 21,000-square-foot building.

Though it gained the support of the BRA, many community members and organizations opposed its construction. The Brighton Allston Improvement Association and the Allston Civic Association have repeatedly opposed the proposal in the past.

Pesseck went on to say that the structure would be bad for the neighborhood and bring in transient residents in an area already overpopulated by college students.

“You’re going to have a transient population bringing in U-Haul trucks and leaving garbage all over the place,” Pesseck said. “That guy didn’t care about our neighborhood and just wanted to make a lot of money off Allston.

Greylock Glenville LLC must wait one year before they can present another plan. Pesseck hopes that they choose to maintain the properties currently standing.

He said, “Many people in community said fix them up and enlarge the places for modern living. Improve them, and I don’t think anybody would have opposed him.”

Read more: Boston Zoning Board turns down Greylock project in Allston - Allston-Brighton, MA - Allston/Brighton TAB http://www.wickedlocal.com/allston/...own-Greylock-project-in-Allston#ixzz1lzFDVhQ2
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new site plan:
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http://rodearchitects.com/?projects=glenville

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Basically nothing new, but maybe some actual plans coming in October.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/2/14/allston-updates-lack-detail/
Harvard Presents Allston Updates
By MERCER R. COOK, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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As Harvard moves forward in its planning for Allston, the University updated community members on its progress at a Harvard-Allston Task Force meeting on Monday. But the announcement elicited much skepticism from residents, who said they felt the update lacked crucial details and a sufficient commitment from the University.

“It is unacceptable that Harvard is coming to us with a third major proposal and not committing to a time-frame for the science project,” said Cathleen Campbell, a Task Force member and Allston resident. “We have approved the I-Lab, Tata Hall, and now they’re saying that they want to do another project in our community without a time frame when it’s been four years.”

At the meeting, Kevin Casey, the University’s senior director of federal and state relations, informed residents that Harvard is in the midst of academic and logistical planning for resuming construction on its Western Ave. science center. Casey also told community members that the University is currently searching for a third-party developer to construct faculty and graduate housing in Barry’s Corner.

In 2007, Harvard began construction on the Allston Science Complex, a one billion dollar science complex that was envisioned to be, among other things, a mecca for stem cell research. At that time, the University said that it would also create a “main street” on Western Ave.—two prospects that excited many residents.

But the University’s relations with the neighborhood across the Charles took a turn for the worse when Harvard halted construction on the Allston Science Complex in Dec. 2009 due to financial constraints during the economic crisis.

Casey said that University plans to make a final decision on a private development partner for Barry’s Corner in mid-March and will present a more detailed plan for the science center by the end of the academic year.

Throughout the meeting, Task Force members and residents asked for a project time line and a firm promise that the University would not halt construction again. Casey asked for residents’ patience and active participation in selecting a third party developer.

Many residents said they were hesitant to commit an extensive amount of time to another joint planning process after their original plans were not realized.

In an email after the meeting, Casey stressed that Harvard has already dedicated “significant resources” to its science center in Allston.

“[T]his building will represent the single largest investment in a science facility ever made by the university, and the biggest investment in science space envisioned for at least the next decade, if not longer,” Casey wrote. “It is critical that we get it right.”

Residents asked the Boston Redevelopment Authority representatives present at the meeting to secure a commitment from the University.

BRA Chief Planner Kairos Shen said that Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino is committed to ensuring that Harvard follows through on its promises to the Allston community.

“The mayor has two priorities: One is to finish the science center and the second is to develop some of this land over the next two years so that it can help our economic recovery as a city as a whole,” Shen said, adding that Menino has held regular meetings with Harvard administrators.

“If, in October of this year, you are still not satisfied with what the University is telling you about the Science Complex, I guarantee you the mayor won’t be satisfied,” Shen said.

As the meeting drew to a close, Task Force member Harry E. Mattison questioned the effectiveness of previous planning efforts and asked if residents can expect to see “actual shovels in the ground” in the near future.

“Harry, the planning we’ve done led to the approval of Stone Hearth Pizza and Swiss Bakers,” Shen said. “How much we can get done is dependent on how much we can work together. We are humbly asking more of you to sit through more of these so that we can get it right.”
 
A bit more on the new building for the Boston Skating Club.

From today's Globe:
So the club, which runs satellite programs in Newton, Marlborough, and Foxborough, is finalizing a land swap with Harvard that would give the university the Soldiers Field Road [Western Ave] parcel as well as the adjacent plot leased by Days Inn. In return, the club will get a larger site at 176 Lincoln St. in Allston.


It plans to build a three-rink facility that will include a 2,000-seat arena and separate surfaces for figure skating and hockey, and that will allow for more public access.

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But the Quonset hut on the river is destined for the wrecking ball as the Skating Club moves into the 21st century.
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A 2,000 seat skating arena that will rarely be filled (a few times a year at most?) seems like an un-urban use for a substantial amount of land. If the New Balance proposal for across the Pike results in a commuter rail stop, Lincoln Street will become a more viable location than it is today.

As we discussed a while back, I didn't think quiet Harvard athletic facilities were a great fit for Barry's Corner and this proposal seems similar. Does anyone have any thoughts about how the Skating Club's proposed 3 rink facility and associated parking on 5.2 acres can best be designed?
 
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